Key result
Preoperative neurological consultation by a neurohospitalist provides important guidance for patients with or at risk of neurological diseases undergoing surgery.
Neurohospitalists play a crucial role in providing preoperative guidance for patients with or at risk for neurological diseases.
May guide perioperative decisions in neurological patients; leaves open prospective outcome validation.
Neurological diseases are prevalent in the general population, and the neurohospitalist has an important role to play in the preoperative planning for patients with and at risk for developing neurological disease. The neurohospitalist can provide patients and their families as well as anesthesiologists, surgeons, hospitalists, and other providers guidance in particular to the patient's neurological disease and those he or she is at risk for. Here we present considerations and guidance for the neurohospitalist providing preoperative consultation for the neurological patient with or at risk of disturbances of consciousness, cerebrovascular and carotid disease, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, and Parkinson disease.
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Probasco et al. (2013) conducted a review in Neurological disease (preoperative evaluation). Preoperative neurological consultation was evaluated. Preoperative neurological consultation by a neurohospitalist provides important guidance for patients with or at risk of neurological diseases undergoing surgery.
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